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Papers of the American Musicological Society, 1936 PAPERS READ AT THE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY December 29, 1!)36, Chicago, Ill. Held jointly with the MUSIC TEACHERS NATIONAL ASSOCIATION THE PLACE OF Acous'rics IN MUSICOLOGY Harold Spivacke, W ashington, D. C. THE CONTIUBU'l'ION 01•' PHY810f'SYCHOLOGY TO MUSICOLOGY Otto Ortmann, Baltimore, Y.aryland TUE HISTORICAL ASPF,CT OF l\IUSICOLOGY Oliver Strunk, Washington, D. C. '.r1-rn RELATION OF THEORY TO )[UR!COLOGY Donald M. Ferguson, Minneapolis, Minnesota THE BEAIUXG OF AES'rHETICS AND CRITICISM ON MUSICOLOGY Roy Dickinson Welch, Princeton, New Jersey THE 'VIEWPOIXT OF COuIPARATIVE Um;rCOLOGY Helen H. Roberts, Tryon, North Carolina THE SERVICE OF THE LIRRARY TO °M:USICOLOGY Carleton Sprague Smith, New Yor;,. City CHANGING RELATIONS WITHIN THE FIELD OF MUSICOLOGY Otto Kinkeldey, Ithaca, New York SOME ANALYTICAL Al'T"ROAC IIES TO l\ITJS ICAL CRITICISM Carl Bricken, Chicago THE BRAH111:c; YTOLIN CoxcEwro: A RTYLISTIC CRITICISM Benjamin F. Swalin, Chapel Hill, North Carolina THE DISTINCTION BETWBBN f::LA \'!CHORD AND HARPSICHORD l\1usrc Leland Coon, Madison, "Wisconsin ON THE PROLOGUF. IN EARLY OPERA Hugo Le!chtentritt, Cambridge, Massachusetts A Reprint from the 193 6 l'olume of Pro ceedings of the Music Teachers National Association I TWELVE PA PERS ON VARIOUS PHASES OF MUSICOLOGY THE PLACE OF ACOUSTICS IN MUSICOLOGY HAROLD SPIVACKE Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. T HE place of acoustics in musicology is similar to the position occupied by sound in music, but there is, unfortunately, no unanimity of opinion regarding either of these relationships. There are some who hold that sound waves, although indispen­ sable, have little to do with the art of music itself. Others take the viewpoint that every musical performance is also an act of acoustical creation. The musician must actually make the physical medium necessary for musical communication. He cannot use the sound waves existing in nature as material with which to con­ ~truct his forms as is possible in the other arts. It is the close connection between the physical medium and the aesthetic product which makes music unique among the arts. It is essentially this same close connection which establishes the place of acoustics in musicology. The production and reception of music are so de­ pendent on the physical sound used that its study must be re­ garded as of the highest importance. The history of acoustics explains in part the varying view­ points in regard to it which are held today. Acoustics did not begin as an independent study until the nineteenth century, hav­ ing been treated previously as a part of music theory. The two fields then ·gradually grew apart and, in 1885, in the first attempt to outline the scope of musicology, Guido Adler1 placed acoustics among the auxiliary sciences of the so-called systematic branch of musicology. In 1908, Riemann assigned to it one of the five sections of his "Grundriss der Musikwissenschaft,"2 but limited its field to the study of isolated tones, which he regarded, how­ ever, as having little to do with music. Thus acoustics was placed outside the pale - it had gone too far afield in its develop- 1 Ad,Jer, Guido. Umfang, Methode und Ziele der Musikwissensckaft. (In: Vierteljahrsschrift fiir Musikwissenschaft. I, 1885.) • Riemann, Hugo. Grundriss der Musikwissensckaft. Leipzig, 1908, p. 19-41. 4 AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY ACOUSTICS: MUSICOLOGY 5 ment as a separate science and seemed to have forgotten the study too gladly study such musical structures in his laboratory if only of music from which it had sprung. It was to counteract this he knew how to do so with any degree of scientific accuracy. The separation between acoustics and musicology that men like study of musical structures may be said to be the ultimate goal Helmholtz3 founded another branch of the science, called, at dif­ of all men working in this field. The fact that progress in this ferent times, tone-physiology, tone-psychology, psychophysics, and direction has been slow only points to the work still to be done physiopsychology. These names, which are practically synonym­ but need not imply that it cannot be done in the future or that ous, themselves indicate the scope of this field, which attempts to it is not a fit subject for acoustical study. bridge the apparent gap between the study of music and the study That acoustical research is not devoid of musical significance of its physical counterpart in nature by investigating musical may be shown by an examination of the existing points of contact hearing. Physical acousticians had already made some studies of between acoustics and the other branches of musicology and, as the human ear but, as Helmholtz pointed out,3 they were under­ far as is practicable in a short paper of this kind, the manner in taken only because the ear was the most convenient instrument which a knowledge of the methods and results of acoustical re­ for the study of rapid elastic vibrations. Today the human ear search can prove useful to these other branches. can be dispensed with entirely in the study of physical acoustics. The field most closely related to acoustics and really an out­ It was perhaps the subject matter of acoustical studies which growth of it is that of tone-psychology. Its methods, as well as made it seem so far removed from music as to be completely with­ the subjects investigated, are always at least partially acoustical. out interest to so many musicologists. Acousticians have so far In order to study the effects of sounds on the human ear, the devoted most of their time to the study of the form and motion sounds must first be accurately produced. This is not as simple of individual sound waves, to the characteristics of individual as it may seem. :Many psychological measurements call for the tones removed from their musical context. Single musical tones use of pure tones, that is, tones completely devoid of overtones. were broken down into their component parts, which are pure Absolutely pure tones are almost impossible of production, how­ tones. These pure tones were then studied from all possible ever, and only the best equipped laboratories can approximate this angles, their frequencies and their intensities were accurately ideal. The quantitative measurements of the tones used also measured, and if they were studied in combinations at all it was produce difficulties. Furthermore, the setting up of the apparatus only in the most simple combinations. All this might have without interference with the free course of the sound, coupled seemed to have no musical significance. The cry arose, and still with the general problems of soundproofing a room add to these arises, that sound waves are not music and that their study is at difficulties. The human subjects used in psychological experiments best only remotely connected with the study of music. are usually much more willing and tractable than the mechanical As already indicated, this is the criticism which is usually apparatus used. directed at acoustics and sometimes also at tone-psychology. It Many of the problems studied in physiopsychological work are seems to be based on an impatience with scientific method, which also intimately bound up with acoustics and serve to make it always studies the simplest elements of a complex structure singly more useful musically. Although such things as beats, overtones, before attempting to study these elements in combination. The combinational tones, frequency, and intensity may be regarded difficulties involved in the scientific study of a complex musical as mechanical phenomena which can be expressed in mathematical structure are enormous. The acoustical musicologist would only terms, when used in psychological studies of consonance and dis­ sonance, tone quality, pitch discrimination, loudness, and other 'Helmholtz, Hermann. On the Sensations of Tone. Tr. by Alexan­ der J. Ellis. 4th ed. London, 1912. See introduction, p. 1-6. problems of musical hearing, the musical character of the inves- 6 AMERICAN MUSICOLOGICAL SOCIETY ACOUSTICS: MUSICOLOGY 7 tigation becomes more obvious. And it is fairly safe to say that mechanist, aesthetic problems admit only of physical and physiolo­ the results of such researches have already proved their useful­ gical explanation. Since it can hardly be maintained that acous­ ness to the other branches of musicology, a usefulness for which tics, in its present stage of development, can furnish a definite the special field of acoustics must take at least partial credit. answer one way or another, further discussion of this fundamental The relationship of acoustics to comparative musicology is a philosophical question seems beyond the scope of this paper. similar one, for the methods of the comparative musicologist are We come now to the examination of the place of acoustics in also acoustical in great part. First of all, the initial step in the field of music history. This is perhaps the broadest field in practically all such work is the recording of the music to be all musicology and anything connected with music has become of studied, by means of the phonograph. Then, after transcribing interest to the historian, acoustics itself having been a subject for and analysis, the comparative musicologist employs many criteria musico--historical study. The setting up of acoustical criteria for which are acoustical in their nature, such as those set up by van the music historian, however, has lagged behind and he has rarely Hornbostel.4 Ethnological comparisons based on the instruments used acoustical methods or viewpoints in approaching his subject. or intervals and scales used presuppose accurate acoustical meas­ We have a good example of its necessity, though, in the music of urements. our own day, which may some day come to be· known as the As already pointed out, musical theory and acoustics had a electrical age of music.
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